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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]My two cents here is to make it fun for your family members to get together. [/b] Isn't that the point of being close -- to enjoy spending time together?  Yet I have experienced and heard of so many family gathering driven by guilt and criticism -- berating people for not coming to past events or criticizing them for not staying longer or how they chose to cook or what they brought... would you be excited to go to a family gathering like that?  You might be able to make people attend sometimes through guilt and obligation, but it won't last.  [b]Make it warm and welcoming and it will be easy to get them to come. [/b] [/quote]

PP here.  Totally agree with this.  Sometimes the alternative to spending (for example) "vacation" with your immediate family is ......rearranging your sock drawer.  If it is fun, warm and engaging - not just out of obligation and posting photos on social media (and sometimes deliberately leaving one or two immediate family members out so it actually looks like they were not there most of the time, when they actually were there most of the time - MIL I am talking to you).

If it is fun, warm and engaging - people will want to take part, not just feel like they have to (because it might be their last holiday, whatever).  I mean, if you live close by, shouldn't you be seeing each other on the regular?  Not just for photos?[/quote]

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